All Screen articles in 2 October 2001

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  • News

    Berlusconi acquitted of most charges, some remain

    2001-10-02T23:01:00Z

    Italy's Supreme Court has acquitted prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi of charges of false accounting during the acquisition of leading film outfit Medusa Film in the late 1980s.The verdict clears Berlusconi of a 16-month prison sentence handed out by a court in 1997. It also confirms an appeals ...

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    Lantana opens Brooklyn's New Wave Down Under fest

    2001-10-02T22:56:00Z

    The film component of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's (BAM) New Wave Down Under Festival opens with new Australian film Lantana this Thursday (Oct 4). BAM decided that the month-long celebration of Australian arts and culture should go ahead despite the tragic events in New York and Washington of September ...

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    UK openers score well at home

    2001-10-02T18:59:00Z

    British films were the toast of the town in the UK this weekend as Enigma and Mike Bassett: England Manager battled it out with holdover The Fast And The Furious and fellow opener The Score to claim top five positions. While unable to pose any threat to Steven Spielberg's fantasy ...

  • News

    FFF Bayern awards funding for eight projects

    2001-10-02T18:59:00Z

    New feature films by Margarethe von Trotta, Oskar Roehler, Doris Doerrie and Gavin Hood, are among eight projects awarded a total of $5.9m (DM 12.6m) production funding by the Bavarian public funder FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (FFF) at its latest session.While the largest sum - $1.4m (DM 3m) - went to Gavin ...

  • News

    Working Title develops animatronic Rat project

    2001-10-02T18:56:00Z

    The UK's Working Title Films is developing an untitled family film based on newcomer Billy O'Brien's short film The Tale Of The Rat That Wrote.The story of a rat's adventures in a dark, Dickensian world combines live-action, animation and the animatronics effects from the blockbuster Babe. O'Brien is to adapt ...

  • News

    Bonduel to head Pathe distribution and sales arms

    2001-10-02T18:50:00Z

    Marc Bonduel, formerly CEO of France Television Distribution/President Films, has joined Pathe, where he will head both the French film distribution arm Pathe Distribution and international sales outfit Pathe International.Bonduel, 45, a former CEO of Warner Home Video in France who has headed public broadcaster France Television 's film and ...

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    Michelangelo Antonioni to return to directing

    2001-10-02T18:47:00Z

    Michelangelo Antonioni, the ailing 89-year-old director of Blow Up and Beyond The Clouds, is set to return to the film set after six years to direct one segment of a three-part feature film. Wong Kar-wai and Pedro Almodovar are attached to direct the other two parts of the movie, a ...

  • Reviews

    Ghislain Lambert's Bike

    2001-10-02T18:27:00Z

    Dir: Philippe Harel. France/Belgium. 2001. 115 mins. A lively mock biopic of a failed Belgium racing cyclist, Ghislain Lambert's Bike (Le Velo De Ghislain Lambert) is a broad but entertaining comedy with excellent prospects in French-speaking markets and anywhere where cycling is a national obsession. Care will be needed to ...

  • Reviews

    The Man From Elysian Fields

    2001-10-02T17:03:00Z

    Dir: George Hickenlooper. US. 2001. 105minsThe trials and tribulations of an underachieving novelist provide the basis of The Man From Elysian Fields, a modern morality tale that sustains a dry, playful wit and tight narrative for its first hour before beginning to unravel. Conventional closing stages fail to deliver on ...

  • Reviews

    Let's Get Skase

    2001-10-02T16:13:00Z

    Dir: Matthew George. Australia. 2001. 100 mins.The recent death from cancer and emphysema in Majorca of Christopher Skase, fugitive Australian businessman and would-be media mogul (he nearly owned MGM in the 80s), has not stopped the wide local release (October 18, 110 screens) of this loud and rumbustious action comedy ...

  • Reviews

    The Navigators

    2001-10-02T15:49:00Z

    Dir Ken Loach. UK-Germany-Spain-Italian-French. 95 mins.Propagating the cause of the working class, Ken Loach's politics are in the right place - but that doesn't necessarily result in powerful film-making, as is evident from The Navigators, his latest foray into left-of-centre ideology, which this time examines the privatisation of the British ...

  • News

    Warner Bros promotes Gornell, Nolan, Schneider

    2001-10-02T05:39:00Z

    Warner Bros Pictures has made three senior promotions in its London-based international marketing division. Con Gornell has been named senior vice president, European theatrical marketing, Conor Nolan has been promoted to vice president European promotions and special events, and Armin Schneider has been named vice president, European publicity. The promotions ...

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    Imperial renamed Comerica Entertainment Group

    2001-10-02T05:37:00Z

    Entertainment lending group Imperial Entertainment Group has been renamed Comerica Entertainment Group, following the acquisition of Imperial Bank by Comerica in Jan this year.The completed merger gives the entertainment group, headed by president Morgan Rector, access to increased capital for financing entertainment projects and entities.Comerica Entertainment Group has financed large-scale ...

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    Erin O'Neil joins Myriad as vp, m'ktg & publicity

    2001-10-02T05:36:00Z

    Erin O'Neil has been named vice president of marketing and publicity at Myriad Pictures in Los Angeles. She will be responsible for international marketing and publicity campaigns for the company's production and acquisitions slate which includes Chen Kaige's Killing Me Softly, Miguel Arteta's The Good Girl and Dan Algrant's People ...

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    Menemsha gets international rights to L.I.E.

    2001-10-02T05:34:00Z

    Neil Friedman's Menemsha Entertainment has acquired rights outside North America to Michael Cuesta's L.I.E. which is currently on release in the US through Lot 47 Films. The film world premiered in competition at this year's Sundance Film Festival and was one of the most critically acclaimed titles at the festival. ...

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    Nadia Bronson hires Castaneda, O'Dell, Alves

    2001-10-02T05:31:00Z

    Nadia Bronson, the former international marketing and distribution chief at Universal Pictures, has named three key staff hires at her new company - Nadia Bronson Associates, a one-stop consultancy for international distribution, marketing, promotions and creative services. All three had worked with Bronson at Universal. They are: - Thomas ...

  • Reviews

    Mike Bassett: England Manager

    2001-10-01T19:33:00Z

    Dir: Steve Barron. UK. 2001. 89 mins The British passion for football has never quite translated into an appetite for football films. When Saturday Comes (1995) failed to make much of an impression and A Shot At Glory (2000) is only just limping into a limited release two years after ...

  • News

    India announces anti-piracy measures

    2001-10-01T19:31:00Z

    Indian Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sushma Swaraj has announced the formation of a six-member committee to regulate the showing of films on cable networks. She also committed to preventing the screening of pirated versions of films on Indian cable TV networks. The new committee comprises Indian filmmakers: Yash Chopra, ...

  • News

    Figgis' Battle to premiere at London festival

    2001-10-01T19:30:00Z

    Already in the London Film Festival programme with Hotel, the follow-up to his acclaimed digital picture Timecode, experimental UK film-maker Mike Figgis will also premiere his digital documentary The Battle Of Orgreave at the event, which runs Nov 7-22.The Battle Of Orgreave portrays a June 2001 re-enactment of the ...

  • News

    France's Expand reports first half losses

    2001-10-01T19:27:00Z

    French television production powerhouse Expand, a subsidiary of Vivendi Universal, has announced a Euros 4.5m loss for the first half of 2001, compared to a Euros 1.8m net profit in the same period last year.Expand -- in which Vivendi Universal (through StudioCanal) upped its participation to a controlling 52.1% stake ...